portolan-pipeline
World country boundaries at 1:110m scale from Natural Earth, the public domain reference basemap maintained by NACIS. Republished as cloud-native GeoParquet alongside the original zipped Shapefile.
License, CC0-1.0. Providers, Natural Earth (producer, licensor), Portolan SDI (host). Original source, https://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip . Features, 177. Cloud-native asset, natural-earth-countries.parquet (GeoParquet).
The data asset is GeoParquet 2.0 with a native geometry type and a covering bbox column for fast web-client pruning. Read it with a recent GeoPandas built on pyarrow 24 or newer.
Or query it in place with a recent DuckDB spatial.
